By conserving water- Boone residents can help prevent a water shortage.

Simple ways you can help, he says, are by turning water off while brushing teeth and waiting to run dishwashes and clothes washers until they are completely full.

Residents are also asked to limit car washes and landscape watering. If you must irrigate your land because of the dry weather- do it in the morning or evening hours when the water is less likely to evaporate, he says.